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MT. VERNON ON THE POTOMAC. 




Under the auspices of the 



KnightiS ^eE^plap sf IlIiRsiS. 



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OCTOBER 9th, 1889. 
A.-. O.-. 771. 



H. S. TIFFANY & CO., PRINTERS, 196 TO 202 CLARK ST.. CBICAGO. 



In accord with Purinton's Templar Tactics and the resolution 
adopted by the Grand Commandery at its last Annual Conlave, and 
the voluntary concurrence of Commanderies, as indicated toy answers 
to the Circular Letter of the Eight Eminent Grand Commander dated 
November 13th, 1888, furthering' such project, every effort has 
been made to maintain the Battalion formation for the Knights 
I'emplar of Illinois during the continuance of their pilgrimage to 
attend the Triennial Conclave of the Grand Encampment at "Wash- 
ington, D. C, even in the " make up" of Railroad Trains en route. 

The KaUroad Lines ovmed by the Pennsylvania Company, being 
thoroughly eqtiipped, and the facilities for transportation under its 
control being unsurpassed, and safety and elegance of accommo- 
dations being made pre-requisites by the Sir Knights of Illinois, 
it was determined to go to Washington and return, qver the lines 
belonging to the Pennsylvania Kailroad Company. 



The Memorial Service at the tomb of George Washington was 
suggested by Eminent Sir De Witt C. Cregier. 



This Programme for the Memorial Service was compiled and 
arranged by Right Eminent Sii* Henry C. Ranney, with the purpose 
of giving in it a succint history of GEORGE WASHINGTON. 



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MEMORIAL SERVICE 



MT, YERNON ON THE POTOMAC, 




Under the Auspices of the 



KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF ILLINOIS. 



OCTOBER 0TH, 1889. 
A.'. O.'. 771 . 



PROGRA M M E. 



AFTER COMMANDERIES HAVE BEEN FORMED AS PER ORDER. 



Prayer, by Kev. and Em. Sir James Miller, Gr. Prelate. 

Music, - - - ' - " TJio Sivord of Bunker Hill." 

By the Consolidated Bands. 



RESPONSIVE SERVICE. 

Grand Commander : One hundred years ago Sir Knights and 
Brethren, the first President of the United States, the Ilhistrious 
and Immortal 

George Washington, 

was inaugurated, and this day we assemble around his tomb, 
citizens of a great (and then unknown) State, to pay his august 
name the tribute of our love and honor ; a man "the first among 
his equals ; ^^ a "Mason, free by birth, rank and station," but 
noiv a captive to the dread messenger at whose call the king and 
the beggar meet upon the level. 

The name of Washington claims a place in Masonry, not so 
much for services rendered the Institution either as a worker or 
a writer, as it does on account of his connection with the craft, 
making it a source of pride to every Amei'ican Mason who can for 
this reason at least, claim the Father of his Country as a Brother. 

Washington was initiated in the Lodge at Fredericksburg, Va., 
Nov. 4, 1752 ; jjassed March 3, 1753, and the following evening 
was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason. 

There is evidence that during the revolutionary war, while 
he was Commander in Chief of the American armies, he was a 



frequent attendant upon the meefings of military lodges, that he 
presided on one or more occasions at the initiation of candidates; 
and it was at one time seriously proposed to elect him Grand 
Master of Masons throughout the United States. In May, 1788, 
his name appears as a charter member of a lodge (Alexandria 
No. 22), of which he was unanimously chosen tirst Master. In 
December of the same year the record reads that "His Excellency, 
General Washington " was unanimously re-elected. On repeated 
occasions he announced in his letters and addresses to various 
Masonic Bodies, his j)rofound esteem for the character, and his 
just appreciation of the principles of our Institution, into which 
at so early an age he had been admitted ; and during his long 
and laborious life, no opportunity was presented of which he did 
not avail himself to evince his esteem for it. Thus in 1792, in a 
letter to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, he expressed his 
opinion of the Order, declaring it to oe " One whose liberal 
principles were founded on the immutable laws of 'truth and 
justice,' and whose grand object is to promote the happiness of 
the human race." And at other times to divers Grand Lodges 
he made the most explicit declarations to the same effect. 

Brethren, we as American Masons love to dwell on the fact 
that this distinguished patriot (whose memory is so revered, that 
his unostentatious grave, which we now surround, has become 
the Mecca of America), was not only our Brother, but was ever 
ready to express his good opinion of the Craft. Says one of 
his distinguished confreres: "Washington would not have 
encouraged an Institution hostile to morality, religion, good 
order and the public welfare." 

Response: Apollo No. 1, K. T., of Chicago. — Washington 
possessed in a pre-eminent degree the four cardinal virtues of our 
Order: Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence and Justice. History 
gives numerous instances of this. Temperate in his habits and 
general speech, his fortitude was displayed under many trying 
circumstances, and his prudence under defeat and want of 
support enabled him to act with justice in all his dealings 
with mankind. 

Remarks: By Em. Sir Dewitt C. Cregier, E. C. of Apollo 
No. 1. 



Response: Peoria No. 3, K. T., Peoria. — Our Jirother 
possessed another great Masonic virtue — fervency — whatever he 
did, he did with all his might. 

Response: Joliet No. 4, K. T. , Joliet. — lie showed his zeal, 
for the welfare of his soldiers ; and after the declaration of peace 
for promotion of law and order. 

Response : Blaney No. b, K. T., Morris. — He had faith in the 
Justice of his cause^ and encouraged by hope, drew his sword in 
defense of the liberties of his country, never forgetting to extend 
the point of charity to a fallen foe. 

Response: Beaumanoir No. 9, K. T., Decatur. — Washington 
had the fierce fighting temper of the Northmen. He loved 
battle and danger, and never ceased to love them and to give 
way to their excitement ; and his utter indifference to danger 
was the kev stone of his success. 



Music : - - - - - •' Weber Quartette. 



Grand Commander : It is said that we know but little of the 
life of this great man, that his history has never yet Ijeen written ; 
but this we do know : that he was a loving and obedient son, an 
affectionate brother, a good husband, and above all, "the noblest 
work of God," an honest man. 

Response : Cairo No. 13, K. T., Cairo. — At the age of sixteen 
he was actively engaged in surveying the great Fairfax estate, 
and the first period of his career was passed on the frontier 
fighting Nature, the Indians and the French. Tall and muscular, 
with a well-shaped, active figure, and a face oj^en and manly, 
possessing a square massive jaw, and a genial expression of 
calmness and strength : fair and florid, big and strong, he was, 
take him all in all, as fine a specimen of his race, as could be 
found in the Colonies. 

Response: Gorin No. 14, K. T., Olney. — At the age of nine- 
teen he was appointed an Adjutant General of Virginia, with the 
rank of Major ; and at twenty-two entered on his first campaign, 
and although it was neither a brilliant or successful one, his 
services were so highly appreciated, that the House of Burgesses 
passed a vote of thanks to him and his men. 



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Response: tJrbana No. 16, K. T., Urbaiia. — At twenty-five 
we hear of him as a general without an army. He wrote, " I 
have been posted here for more than twenty months past, upon 
our cold and barren frontiers, to perform, I think I may say, 
impossibilities : that is, to protect from the cruel incursions of 
a crafty, savage enemy, a line of inhabitants of more than three 
hundred and fifty miles in extent, wilh a force inadequate to 
the task. 

Response : Everts No. 18, K. T., Rock Island. — At the age of 
twenty-seven, Washington was married to Martha Dandrige; 
three months later took his seat as a member of the House of 
Burgesses, and received the thanks of the House for his services 
to his country. "With a largely increased estate, he devoted his 
time to farming, of which he understood every branch. He 
kept his own accounts with wonderful exactness ; his credit 
was high, and he made money. He had no senseless disregard 
for it or the good things of this world, but estimated them at 
their true worth. 

Response: Chicago No. 19, K. T., Chicago. — Washington's 
active life at this time was largely out of doors, so too were his 
pleasures. He loved the fresh open air existence in the woods 
and fields, and there he found his greatest amusement. He 
fished and hunted, and at the age of forty, we learn that the 
life of a country gentleman did not dull or stupify him, or 
lead him to gross indulgence. 

Response: Temple No. 20, K. T., Princeton. — Washington 
watched the course of events very closely; for in 1769 he wrote 
" Something should be done to avert the stroke and maintain 
the liberty which we have derived from our Ancestors. That 
man should not scruple or hesitate a moment to use arms in 
defense of so valuable a blessing is clearly my opinion. '^ 

Response: Aurora No, 23, K. T., Aurora. — In August, 
Washington represented his country in the meeting of represent- 
atives from all Virginia. The silent man was now warming 
into action. 

Response : De MolayNo. 24, K. T., Bloomington. — In a most 
eloquent speech he said : "I will raise a thousand men, subsist 
them at my own expense, and march them to the relief of 
Boston." 



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Response: Calvary No. 25, K. T., Woodstock. — He took 
but little part in the debates of Congress at Philadelphia, but 
notwithstanding this, he impressed himself deeply on all the 
delegates. Says Patrick Henry: "If you speak of solid inform- 
ation and sound judgment. Col. Washington is unquestionably 
the greatest man on the floor." 

Grand Commander: June loth, 1775, George Washington 
was unanimously elected Commander-in-Chief of the American 
Armies; and iiis words accepting the trust were few and simj)le. 
He expressed his sense of his own insufficiency for the task before 
him, and saicl that as no pecuniary consideration could have 
induced him to undertake the work, he must consequently 
decline all pay or emoluments, and look to Congress to 2:»ay his 
expenses only. 

Mankind is impressed l)y externals, and those who gazed upon 
Washington in the streets of Philadelphia felt their courage rise 
and their hearts grow strong at sight of his muscular figure as 
he passed before them on horseback with a mien which was 
stately, dignified and well contained; and were confident he 
was a man wortliy and able to equal the emergency he was 
chosen to meet. 



Music: '- - - ''Star Spangled Banner. 

CONSOLIDATED BANDS. 



Resjmnse : Hugh De Payens JSTo. 29, K. T., Carrollton. — 
He arrived at Cambridge early in July, and all speak alike of 
him; lady, lawyer and surgeon, patriot and tory, and as they 
Avrote, so New England felt; one said: "Dignity, ease and 
complacency, the gentleman and the soldier, look equally blended 
in him, and modesty marks every line and feature of his face.'' 
Th^se lines of Dryden instantly occurred to me. — 

"Mark his majestic fabric! He's a temple. 
Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine : 

His soul's the deity that lodges there ; 
Nor is the pile unworthy of the God. " 



Music: . . - . " Weher Quartette/' 



Resjionse : St. Onier, No. 30, K. T,, Litchfield. — His letters 
to the Commcinder of the British Army in Boston taught the 
British general that Washington was not a man to be trifled 
with, and that in him was a pride and dignity over topping 
theirs and far stronger, because it was grounded on responsibility 
1)orne, and work done, and on the dee|) sense of a great and 
righteous cause. 

Bssponse : St. Bernard No. 35, K. T., Chicago. — He had to 
contend with local and personal jealousies on account of the 
greed and selfishness of the money-making, stock-jobbing sjiirit, 
which springs up rankly under the influence of army contracts 
and large expenditures among a people accustomed to trade and 
unused to war, but despite all hindrances and annoyances, he 
moved straight .on to the accomplishment of his object. After 
the capture of Boston, Washington wrote as follows : " To 
maintain a post within musket shot of the enemy for 
six months together, without powder: and at the same time 
to disband one army and recruit another within that distance of 
twenty odd British regiments, is more j)robably, than ever was 
before attempted." It was a gallant feat of arms, carried 
through by the strong brain and resolute will of one man. 

Response: Godfrey De Bouillion No. 44, K. T., Mattoon. — We 
pass to his last victory at Yorktown, where Lord Cornwallis 
surrendered his army to the allied American and French 
forces, as it was practically the end of the war. Washington's 
management of this camj^aign was masterly. The great 
factor of success lay in his profound personal influence on all 
men with whom he came in contact. He found difficulty in 
managing allied troops and an allied fleet, but he did both with 
infinite address and won. His courtesy and tact were perfect, 
but he made no concessions and never stooped. The proudest 
French noble who came here, shrank from disagreement with 
Washington, and yet none of them had anything but admiration 
and respect to express when they wrote of him in their memoirs, 
diaries and letters. He impressed them one and all with a sense 
of power and greatness, which could not be disregarded. 



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Response: Athelstan No 45, K. 'I'., Danville. — To those 
who have suspected that Washington was cold blooded and 
unmindful of others, the letters he wrote in regard to his 
soldiers may be commended. The man whose heart was 
wrung by the sufferings of the poor peo2:>le on the Virginia 
frontier, in the days of the old French war, never in fact 
changed his nature. Fierce in fight^ passionate and hat 
when his anger was stirred, his love and sympathy were keen 
and strong towards his army. His heart went out to the 
brave men who had followed him, loved him, and never swerved 
in their loyalty to him and to their country. Washington's 
affection for his men, and their devotion to him, had saved 
the cause of American independence oftener than strategy or 
daring. 



Music : " Golumhia. 

CONSOLIDATED BANDS. 



Response : Chevalier Bayard No. 52, K. T., Chicago. — 
Washington's patriotism and nobility of character was fully 
shown by his course after the '•'Newburgh Addresses " had been ' 
published. The excitement was at fever heat. The feeling of 
hostility to the existing system of government, and of confidence 
in Washington increased steadily. It was as easy for Washington 
to have grasped supreme power then, as it would have been for 
Csesar to have taken the crown from Antony upon the Lupercal. 
To put aside a crown for love of country is noble, but to look 
down upon an opportunity to take one, indicates a much greater 
loftiness and strength of mind. 

Response: Siloam No. 54, K. T., Oak Park. — Washington 
was wholly free from the vulgar ambition of the usurper, and 
a desire for worldly aggrandizement found no place in his 
nature. He fought to free the colonies from England and 
make them independent, and not to j^lay the part of a Caesar or 
Cromwell in the wreck and confusions of a civjl war. He 
flung aside the suggestion of supreme power, not only as 
dishonorable and unpatriotic, but because its assumption by 



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him would have defeated the one great and noble object at 
which he had aimed : the establishing of a strong government 
for the country he had made indejjendent. 

Response: Sterling Commandery No, 57, K. T., Sterling. — 
Washington was unanimously elected the first President of the 
United States, and on the 30th of Api-il, 1789, he was inaugurated 
in the city of New York. History tells us that after the 
administration of the oath, he laid his hand upon the Holy 
Bible — that great light in Free Masonry — bowed, and said 
solemnly, when the oath was concluded, "I swear, so help me 
God," and bowing meekly, kissed the book. 



Music: - . . . '* Weher Quartette. 



Resjjonse : Englewood Commandery No. 59, K. T., Engle- 
wood. — God in his wisdom denied Washington children, that 
he might live forever under the ever enduring title of " the 
Father of his Country." 

His farewell address was instinct with the purest and 
wisest patriotism. "Be united," he said, "be Americans. The 
name which belongs to you in your national capacity, must 
exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation 
derived from local discriminations. Let there be no sectionalism; 
no North, South, East or West; you are all dependent one 
on another, and should be one in union. Beware of attacks, 
open or covert, upon the Constitution. In one word, be a 
Nation, be Americans, and be true to yourselves." 

Grand Commander : After a short illness Wasliington departed 
this life December 14th, 1799, and was buried on the 18tli ; 
the Free Masons of Alexandria bearing the body in procession 
and performing their ceremonies at the vault. The obsequies 
were modest and simple according to his own wishes, and the 
grounds of Mount Vernon which had formed the poetical dream 
of his life, now became his final resting place. Public testimo- 
nials of grief and reverence were displayed in every part of the 
Union ; and such sentiments were not cenfined to the United 



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states. Wheu the news of his death reached England, Lord 
Bradjiort in command of an English fleet of sixty sail of the 
line, lowered his flag half mast, and the commander of every 
ship followed his example, and Bonaparte, First Consul, when 
he announced the death of Washington to the army of France, 
ordered that black crape should be suspended from all the 
standards and flags in the public service for ten days. 

Music: - - - " My Countrij 'Tisof Tliee." 

CONSOLIDATED BANDS. 

Address: By Eev. Sir Knight GtEO. C. Lorimer, D.D. 

Music: ------ '( Weber Qiiartette." 

Prayer akd Benediction : - By Grand Prelate. 



ILLINOIS TRIENNIAL COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS. 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

E. Sir Henry S. Tiffany, Chairman. 

E. Sir James P. Siiehwin, Secretary. 

Sir Charles E. Clifton, Assistant Secretary. 



E. Sir DeWitt C. Cregier, 
E. Sir Henry C. Cleaveland, 
E. Sir Eugene L. Stoker, 
E. Sir Pearson B. Updyke, 
E. Sir George L. Ward, 
E. Sir Joseph S. Ingram, 



E. Sir John H. Warren, 
E. Sir Homer S. Ciiilds, 
E. Sir Hamer H. Green, 
E. Sir Richard Yates, 
E. Sir William M. Crilly, 
E. Sir George Wells, 



E. Sir J. Frank Foster, 
Sir L. L. Wadsworth, Sir W. H. Gleason, Sir W. W. Ramsey. 



GENERAL COMMITTEE. 



E. Sir Amos Grannis, E. Sir 

E. Sir Joseph Elder, E. Sir 

E. Sir Joseph P. Lindley, E. Sir 

E. Sir Frank Murdoch, E. Sir 

E. Sir Walter B. Titus, E. Sir 

E. Sir Aden Knoph, E. Sir 

E. Sir G. A. Willl\ms, E. Sir 

E. Sir Charles E. Gushing, E. Sir 

E. Sir Samuel W. Waddle, E. Sir 

E. Sir William Avery, E. Sir 

E. Sir Charles A. Weimer, E. Sir 

E. SirMALACHi Maynard, E. Sir 

E. Sir Wm. H. Bergstresser, E. Sir 

E. Sir Andrew S. McDowell, E. Sir 

E. Sir James H. Thomas, E. Sir 

E. Sir L. B. Boswell, E. Sir 

E. Sir Elbert E. Jaycox, E. Sir 



Henry R. Phinney, 
Charles F. Hitchcock, 
Rheuna D. Lawrence, 
William H. Starr, 
George O'Hara, 
Edward Blackshaw, 
Frederick McCutchen, 
John T. Smith, 
W. H. Allen, 
Israel Q. Huston, 
John J. Badenoch, 
John P. Norvell, 
Thompson W. McNeeley, 
Jacob Hazlitt, 
Hiram Sherman, 
Chas. M. Worthington, 
Edward Kirk, Jr. 



OFFICERS OF GRAND»»COMMANDERY, 1889. 



R. E. Sir Norman Theodore Gassette, of Chicago. . Grand Comtuander. 
V. E. Sir George Mayhew Moulton, of Chicago. .Dep. Gr. Commander. 

E. Sir Joseph Ed^vard Dtas, of Paris Grand Generali&sinio. 

E. Sir Sylvester Omer Spring, of Peoria Grand Captain General. 

Rev. and E. Sir James Miller, of Decatur Grand Prelate. 

E. Sir Charles Gamble Mac, of Mattoon Grand Senior Warden. 

L. Sir Harvey Milton Hall, of Olney Grand Junior Warden. 

E. Sir John Henry Whitbeck, of Chicago Grand Treasurer. 

E. Sir Gilbert Wordsworth Barnard, of Chicago Grand Recorder. 

E. Sir Caleb Clark Johnson, of Sterling. Grand Standard Bearer. 

E. Sir Henry Hunter Montgomery, of Carrollton. Grand Sword Bearer. 

E. Sir Augustus Livingston Webster, of Danville Grand Warder. 

E. Sir Archibald McLellan, of Chicago Grand Captain Guards. 



STAKK. 



Em. Sir Joseph E. Dyas, 
Em. Sir Sylvester O. Spring, 
Em. Sir James Miller, 
Em. Sir Charles G. Mac, 
Em. Sir Harvey M. Hall, 



Em. Sir John H. Witbeck, 
Em. Sir Gilbert W. Barnard, 
Em. Sir Caleb C. Johnson, 
Em. Sir Henry H. Montgomery, 
Em. Sir Augustus L. Webster, 



Em. Sir Archibald McLellan. 
Past Rt. Em. Grand Commanders as Permanent Members of the Grand Encampment : 



Most Em. Sir Vincent L. Hurlbut, 
R. Em. Sir Henry C. Ranney, 
R. Em. Sir Daniel Dustin, 
R. Em. Sir William H. Turner, 
R. Em. Sir P. W. Barclay. 



R. Era. Sir Charles M. Morse, 

R. Em. Sir John C. Smith, 

E. Eiii. Sir Henry Turner, 

R. Em. Sir John L. White, 

R. Em. Sir Wilbur F. Bromfield, 



AIDES DE CAMP: 



Em. Sir Henry S. Tiffany, 
Em. Sir James P. Sherwin, 
Em. Sir Thos. E. Lawrence, 
Em. Sir R. N. Lawrence, 
Era. Sir W. A. Stevens, 
Em. Sir J. C. Palmer, 
Em. Sir George W. Bright, 
Em. Sir E. E. Thomas, 
Em. Sir W. W. Moore. 
Em. Sir W. W. Patch, 
Em. Sir R. L. Tatham, 
Em. Sir John H. Gunn. 



Em. Sir Wm. M. Murphy, 
Em. Sir H. H. Miller, 
Em. Sir S. L. Hawks, 
Em. Sir Wm. F. Cochrane, 
Em. Sir John Ervin, 
Em. Sir Elbert E. Jaycox, 
Em. Sir E. F. Phelps, 
Em. Sir W. C. Calkins, 
Em. Sir T. B. Yerres, 
Em. Sir C. H. Goold, 
Sir Charles E. Clifton, 
Sir William L. Distin. 



Em. Sir G. M. Evatt, 



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